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Peter Dinnage wins Alan Moor Award

UK: Peter Dinnage, technical director of Climalife UK, has been named as this year’s winner of the Alan Moor Award for his services to the air conditioning and refrigeration industry.

The annual award was announced this afternoon during this year’s online ACR News Awards. Other awards saw Derbyshire Refrigeration named as Wholesaler/Distributor of the Year.

After studying chemistry at university, Dinnage has spent his entire career in refrigerants since joining ISC Chemicals (later Rhone Poulenc) as a sales rep in 1987. 

Highly regarded for his technical knowledge of refrigerants and understanding of the F-gas regulations, he continues to influence and raise awareness, explaining reasons and offering solutions that are right for individual businesses.

Lightfoot Defence apprentice Luke Haile followed up his success in being named National Student of the Year at the Cooling Industry Awards in December by taking the ACR News Trainee of the Year Award.

The full list of winners is:

Air Conditioning Ancillary Product of the Year
HomEvap – Humidity Solutions

Environmental Intiative/Project of the Year
Trane and Scottish Water Horizons, Stirling Council Waste Water – District Heating

Air Conditioning Project of the Year
Fujitsu Services – Environmental benefit with low GWP refrigerants

Air Conditioning Product of the Year
Toshiba SMMS-u VRF

Refrigeration Product of the Year
TEV A2LsysteMatch

Heat Pump Product of the Year
Johnson Controls York Amichi YMPA Series with R454B refrigerant

Chiller Product of the Year
Trane RTAF XSE Sintesis Prime

Trainee of the Year
Luke Haile
Lightfoot Defence

Maintenance Product of the Year
CarlySafe RTU

Wholesaler/Distributor of the Year
Derbyshire Refrigeration

Alan Moor Award
Peter Dinnage

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